linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v10)

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:09:27 +0200
From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     carlos <carlos@...hat.com>, Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>,
        Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@....com>,
        libc-alpha <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ben Maurer <bmaurer@...com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v10)

* Mathieu Desnoyers:

> But my original issue remains: if I define a variable called __rseq_handled
> within either the main executable or the preloaded library, it overshadows
> the libc one:
>
> efficios@...pudjdev:~/test/libc-sym$ ./a
> __rseq_handled main: 0 0x56135fd5102c
> __rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 29 0x7fcbeca6d5a0
> efficios@...pudjdev:~/test/libc-sym$ LD_PRELOAD=./s.so ./a
> __rseq_handled s.so: 0 0x558f70aeb02c
> __rseq_abi.cpu_id s.so: -1 0x7fdca78b7760
> __rseq_handled main: 0 0x558f70aeb02c
> __rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 27 0x7fdca78b7760
>
> Which is unexpected.

Why is this unexpected?  It has to be this way if the main program uses
a copy relocation of __rseq_handled.  As long as there is just one
address across the entire program and ld.so initializes the copy of the
variable that is actually used, everything will be fine.

Thanks,
Florian